Obituary: Jack Hartley

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at Essex Funeral Home Chapel, DeWitt with burial at Crocketts Bluff Cemetery. Visitation was held from 5-7 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Essex Funeral Home

Jack Hartley, 75, of DeValls Bluff, died Aug. 1, 2013. He was born Feb. 6, 1938, in Delhi, La., to the late Richard and Georgia Ann Roberts Hartley. Also preceding him in death were five sisters and three brothers.

He retired from Wingmead Farms after 36 years and then co-managed Peckerwood Lake-Hermans Landing. He was a farmer by trade, father by heart and a fisherman for fun. He was taken surrounded by his wife and children.